The remaining band members - Lenny Curley, Richard Lewis, Paul Hausmeister and Steve O'Brien - will use a scheduled date, the Small World street festival in less than three weeks, to play tribute to Curley who died at his Wollongong home on August 24 aged 42.

But the band has not ruled out calling it quits after the festival, which has decided to donate profits from the sale of its official Small World t-shirts of Jay Curley's family.

Tumbleweed's Steve O'Brien released a statement on Monday: "Tumbleweed will be playing the Small World Festival in honour of their late bass player Jason Curley. The eldest of the Curley brothers, Pat Curley will be playing bass for us on the day.

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"As for any other shows, we have not come to a decision on that as yet but will be having talks with our agent to confirm or cancel some other Melbourne shows we had pencilled in."

Tumbleweed had agreed to play at the River Rocks Festival in Geelong on Saturday November 15, with two other shows pencilled in before that. "[We] don't as yet know if we are going to do any of them," O'Brien said.

O'Brien added that the band will soon be releasing a new video clip, for the song Drop in the Ocean, from the 2013 comeback album Sounds From The Other Side. "It was intended for release anyway and was in production at the time of Jason's death, just that now the song has more meaning and will be a further tribute to him."

The music industry was shocked when Tumbleweed, which was at its peak in the mid-1990s and once supported Nirvana, broke the news of Jay Curley's death last week with the statement: "It is with deep sadness that we inform everyone of a great loss in the Tumbleweed family, our brother, friend and bass player Jay Curley passed away suddenly in his home yesterday.

"We are still shocked by the news of his death. We hope that people will remember him for his music, his big heart and his total dedication to rock and roll."

The Small World festval will be held on Jabez Street, Marrickville (near the Factory Theatre) on Saturday, September 20 and will also feature the Delta Riggs, the Snowdroppers, Little Bastards and Steve Smyth. Tickets are $59 and are available at younghenrys.com/smallworld/